MUSICAL eVeNTS Popular Attractions T HIS season, they seem to have a new system for rating drawIng power up at the Stadium Con- certs. It isn't how many paying guests are packed into the grounds on a big night; it's how many are turned away. I haven't heard from the Stadium's of- ficial counter of turnawayees, but this year's Gershwin program must have set a record both for admissions and for no- admissions The stadium's Gershwin program has become stand- ardized. It always includes the Concerto in F, "Rhapsody . Bl " f " p In ue, excerpts rom or- d B "" A A . gyan ess, n merlcan in Paris," and a few snatches from shows. Sometimes there's the "Cuban Rhapsody," but this work doesn't mean much in the Gershwin repertoire. This year, however, it made a soothing ob- bligato for ushers trying to restrain late- comers from pushing over the more punctual customers. The participants in the concert were about as familiar as the music. Oscar Levan t was the soloist for the concerto and the famous rhapsody, and if anybody can prove that there's another pianist who can play those compositions as bril- liantly and understandingly as Mr. Le- van t, that person ought to get a free set of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Alexan- der Smallens conducted as soundly and effectively as always, and the Eva J essye Choir was on hand for an expert voicing of the choral passages from "Porgy and Bess." Miss Ann Brown, the original Bess, added to her old duties all of the other solo soprano music on the pro- gram, singing it as delightfully as she sang Bess's lines. Edward Matthews, one of the most accomplished baritones hereabouts, took over Porgy's songs, along with "It l\.in't Necessarily So," of which he gave the best performance I've ever heard. The Philharmonic-Symphony, which had been on pretty much a straight con- cert diet up to the time of this program, didn't always come through with the bounce that Mr. Smallens obviously would have liked, and there was one wonderful moment of clinker-dropping in "An American in Paris." Still, con- sidering that rehearsals must have been limited, the ensemble deserved the bows it received. For 1942, I hope some- body will treat Mr. Smallens and the orchestra to fresh arrangements of "The Man ] Love" and "Strike Up the Band." The Gershwin music will con- tin ue to sound fresh, In any case. S OMETIMES at the Stadium you get two programs for one admis- sion. That happened last week when the gifted Reginald Stewart made his first appearance at 136th Street and Amsterdam. After Mr. Stewart had directed a solid but over-deliberate performance of Beethoven's fifth symphony, led a good accompanîment for Benny Goodman's sensitive and almost too conservative playing of the Mozart A-major clarinet concerto, and presented William Walton's "Crown Imperial," a march that would have sounded better with cuts and a bit more stingo, the stage was handed over to Mr. Goodman and his own orchestra. Immediately there was "One O'Clock Jump," and with it, dancing in the aisles. The play- ing was lots better than the dancing, though; in fact, it was top Goodman. There was a large gathering for this event, but it wasn't a turn away affair. Maybe Beethoven frightened off some of the jitterbugs and the prospects of a jazz session discouraged the very serious (not that there's anything more serious than a jitterbug, really). The pop peo- ple, however, greeted the symphony en- thusiastically, and I wouldn't guarantee that some of the classic-minded weren't . (( D ' B Th W " stompIng to on teat ay. A T another stadium-the Triboro Stadium on Randalls Island-you can hear opera once a week. The stage is on the baseball field, somewhere near second base, but amplification carries the music to the stands and the stage direc- tor sees to it that the action is broad enough to let the paying guests know what's up. I heard a lively "Carmen," in the popular-opera manner, expertly conducted by Giuseppe Bamboschek. It's pleasant at the Triboro, with plenty to see and hear, and also to eat, if you like meals with your music. -ROBERT A. SIMON . CAN anyone use college graduate, 23, master's degree, math major ? Was it all in vain? C 543 Times.-Â dv. in the Times. CertaInly not. You learned what leads but to the grave, .didn't you? 39 DON'T BE MISLED BY IMITATIONS Insist on Original <\" .. .',.ø<' .;, SlEEP SHADE }: >. " . ..ij: 'X:., . =Ä..... :,;...f": .. Sleep Shade alone has medical ap- proval. 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